Pickett, Overton Joy – 1912-1992

FISHER, GRAY, GRIGGS, GRIMES, MEDLIN, PICKETT

Posted By: Donna Sloan Rempp (email)
Date: 8/9/2016 at 13:35:50

Services Held
Funeral services for Overton Joy Pickett, 79, of Mitchellville, a former resident of Jasper County were held Thursday, May 7, 1992 at Wallace-Pence Funeral Home in Newton.
The Rev. Dave Sikkema, pastor of the Meredith Drive Reformed church in Des Moines, conducted services. Burial was in Newton Memorial Park Cemetery.
Memorials to the American Cancer Society may be left at the funeral home.
He died Monday, May 4, 1992, at the Iowa Methodist Medical Center in Des Moines of leukemia.
Survivors are his wife, Mary; three sons, Carl of Ankeny, Larry of Elizabeth, Colorado, and Roger of Des Moines; a daughter, Ilene (Mrs. Dean) Grimes of Grand Mound; nine grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.
Also surviving are a brother, Charles Pickett of Casper, Wyoming, and two sisters, Mamie Griggs of Monroe and Ruth Gray of Newton.
He was preceded in death his parents, two brothers, Omer Jay and Chester D., and an infant sister, Amy, in 1910.
He was a member of the Zoar Evangelical and Reformed Church in Jasper County.
Mr. Pickett, who moved to Jasper county in 1938, worked for the Maytag Farms for many years. He began working for the City of Newton in 1960 and later worked for the City of Des Moines, retiring in 1977.
The son of Garfield and Goldie Fisher Pickett, she was born October 9, 1912, at Unionville, Missouri, in Putnam County.
He was married to Mary Helen Medlin January 22, 1938, in Unionville, Missouri.
Mr. Pickett, who moved from Des Moines after residing in Newton, moved to Mitchellville in 1976.
Source: Monroe Mirror; 14 May 1992